e.g. "C" is still valid choice, if your data is well organized, known, and no additional heavy modifications are need - e.g. you don't change much - mostly load "pre-cooked " data, play it, keep few (okay dozen, maybe hundreth, even thousand) variables around and that's it.

Once you get to the point of needing various tweaks, modifications, changes, more advanced UI, etc. - you may need better suited language, because malloc/free won't cut it for you.